@snoopydawg hi, I read in a report the pilot plane did not see or notify the jet about a hill on the ridge and that's where they got hit so hard. Every 747 has a lead plane to guide them where to dump, they don't just fly around and guess where to drop it. It was an accident, a mistake. Bad comms.

CalFire just bought a fleet of used C-130s, even though they can't train and staff enough pilots to operate them. I'm not looking forward to a bunch of chicken shit bomb dropping baby killers fresh out of the air force to dump retardant everywhere during future firestorms, but hey... that's the system. Revolving door includes military as always, handouts galore. fuck the poor

Okay, back on topic. PEACE

Tulsi Gabbard is a D party tool, trying to get out the "progressive" vote for the BIG UniParty. She is full of bologna like every other pol, CIA plant or not. good luck

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Imagine if the MSM would show this interview. Tulsi talks about how we are doing wars for oil so I wish she had told people to quit sighing up to go do that. People are dying for the Saudis

We don''t know what action we are engaged in right now, but they are significant. If the Saudis are paying for us to overthrow Assad then why did the military budget need to go up so much? Israel has gotten us to overthrow leaders for them and they too don't have to send their people into the bloodbaths.

It's illegal to support terrorist by giving them weapons, but Tulsi says that we meed a bill in congress that says that. Um, isn't that already a rule or law. Supporting enemies is considered treason from my understanding. But then what do I really know how things in government work?

BTW. A story came out today about how the fire fighter from Utah died. The huge 747 plane that dumps retardant was flying too low and the stuff landed directly the area and a tree came down on him and the others in his group. They were only 100 feet above the trees which is a bad thing to do.

on Social Security disability now - more than any time in history.
@Wink
And some of those people can't work at all... And if we gave them some training, let them keep making a portion of the Social Security disability, but put them back to work, it would be a net win for the individual.

Harwood: But also Social Security and Medicare, right?

Stivers: The only way we're going to be able to fix Social Security and Medicare is for the two parties to come together — the way that Ronald Reagan did with Tip O'Neill — and figure out how to fix them together. I hope we can do that, I believe it's the right thing to do.

Harwood: Retirement age?

Stivers: We need to come together. I think we need to say, "You give a little, we give a little," and figure out how to sustain Medicare and Social Security into the future. The other thing on Medicare is we have to bend the cost curve on health care."

And these futhermuckers say this horse$h!t with a straight face.

to be. But I know
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more than most. Have met the author of an MMT book, then had her on our "web radio" show once a week for nearly a year. So, as they say, I know a little.
The two big takeaways...
Our Federal Taxes don't pay for jack - Do Not fund federal spending. At all.
And, Two, the "Debt" and "Deficit" are non factors, amount to diddly squat in the grand scheme.
The only reason 'we' continue to use such terms is some RW fuck in Reagan's admin insisted those terms remain "in the language" - and it got signed into law. Otherwise bogus, Irrelevant, wouldn't even be a thing.
So, combined, what do wingers have to scare us with?
Nada. That's what.
If "The Gov't" can create as much money as it wants (out of thin air), For whatever it wants, Whenever it wants - and it absolutely can - the only real restrictions being inflation and "productive capacity" (or the real honest to goodness resources needed to make happen whatever Congress wants to make happen - goods and labor mostly) - then what is stopping Libruls from having everything on their wish list? Why don't we yet have Med4All ?? And the answer is, most Librul politicians believe we're still on the gold standard, and spending is limited by Taxes and revenue.
Which of course is horse$h!t. The other answer is political will and who controls Congress' purse strings. That's it.
But there's some winger out there moaning and groaning, "we need to cut spending to pay for the $Trillion we just gave the Rich, so... the 99% are going to have to bend over." Again.
And Nancy and Chucky will just go along to get along and the Repubs will get their cuts into Medicare, Social Security. Becuz these dumb fuck Dims don't know that the rising deficit this winger is talking about, faux "worried" about, is irrelevant. Meaningless. And, of course, brought about by that $Trillion Tax Cut for the Rich to "stimulate the Economy™." if one can imagine.
But if Chucky and Nancy and the other Libtards on Capitol Hill knew their MMT - fat chance - they could tell that winger asshat to pound salt. Alas... So we're fucked again. Becuz Congress critters don't know their economics. {sigh}

these futhermuckers are why we can't have nice things.

The -ahem- "national debt" - that $22 Trillion that 'we' all "owe" is really simply the collective Wealth - not debt - collective wealth of the country. Since July 4, 1776. Or essentially what the country is worth, less tangible assets still in the ground. The country cannot operate in "the black" - can only operate (function) in "the red." So... Repubs (and Dims) look at all that red as a sea of debt. It ain't. How could it be? 'We' create our own currency. What debt? Instead, It's our collective wealth. It's what we've spent on goods and services, our houses and cars, groceries - everything - since 1776. The reason it speeds along Much quicker than it did 25, 30 years ago is becuz - duh - we've added another 100 million people since then. And they buy things. But the Repubs KNOW they can scare the living $h!t out of us simply by mentioning "the debt," "the deicit," so they pull that rabbit out of their hat often. OMG, we must cap the debt ceiling!! The sky will fall!! And Dims fall for it every time - something some winger in Reagan's admin put in some law just for this reason. "Even though they don't exist we will Continue to use the terms Debt and Deficit so that Libtards don't catch on that they don't exist." Or something like that. And it works every time.
But think about it... if 'we' - Congress - can create (out of thin air) as much money as it wants, for whatever it wants, whenever it wants (with above restrictions - inflation and productive capacity aka "real resources") - and it absolutely can and does - then Why would 'we,' Congress, ever be in debt?? Exactly.